Our Bodies, Ourselves
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A funeral director wants to bring death back home. BY REBECCA MEAD Caitlin Doughty, who was about to open her first funeral parlor, in Los Angeles, gazed at a skull that she had put on display above the desk in her office. Although it was plaster, the skull was a provocative presence in a […]
Continue Reading Sympathy Vs. Empathy
Posted on November 24, 2015 by | Leave a comment
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Join Me in Empathy as I Travel to Guatemala with World Vision – See more at: https://www.calebwilde.com/category/death/sympathy-vs-empathy/#sthash.JR0koleW.dpuf A couple years ago we had a late night house call. My grandfather and I drove up to the house and an uncle came outside of the house to meet us, explaining the situation we were about to […]
Continue Reading Eschatology: What If We Could Manufacture Immortality?
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WHY CAN’T HUMANS BE IMMORTAL? There are some animals that don’t show signs of aging. These animals don’t have a decline in functionality nor do they lack virility. This characteristic is called “negligible senescence (or negligible aging)” and is seen in the Rougheye rockfish (which can live up to 205 years), the Ocean Quahog clam (405 […]
Continue Reading When you Only Find a Piece of Your Loved One
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Just like the life cycle feeds off of death, so does the news cycle. Anything that has a degree of tragedy usually finds its way onto the national and/or international news. In principle, many of us realize that “if it makes the news, we don’t have to worry about it” (because the news is by […]
Continue Reading Miscarriage and the Confusion of Sinful Grief: A Response
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I stumbled upon an article entitled Miscarriage and the Confusion of Sinful Grief that was posted at the Reformed Christian website “The Gospel Coalition”. Jamie Carlson (who recently miscarried) wrote the post as a reflection on sin and grief. Here’s a quick except from her post: After my miscarriage, it hit me—grieving and sinning go together. Perhaps […]
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